The shooter was a gamer who was competing in the tournament and lost, according to Steven “Steveyj” Javaruski, one of the competitors.
The shooter “targeted a few people” and shot at least five victims before killing himself, Javaruski told The Times in a direct message on Twitter. The gunman killed two or three people “that I saw,” Javaruski said.
Addiction isn’t physical. It’s a mental disorder compelling someone to seek rewarding stimuli in spite of consequence. Physicality has nothing to do with it.It would be, if there was any such thing as "video game addiction." Video games are no different than any form of repeatable entertainment. No one talks about "TV addiction" anymore even though the average American spends over 20 hours per week watching TV. It's a cultural bias that some people have with video games, because they associate them with children and think the activity is especially frivolous.
If anything can be "addictive," then nothing is addictive. A real "addiction" is a physical dependency.
Eh, psychological addiction is a thing. And it can be applied to anything: Food, porn, videogames, tv, etc
We can talk about the effects of video games if it was a contributing factor, but there seems to be one thing that's always central to the plot of these events that we can never seem to discuss.Honestly it’s a pretty valid discussion to have.
Addiction isn’t physical. It’s a mental disorder compelling someone to seek rewarding stimuli in spite of consequence. Physicality has nothing to do with it.
Oh great, we're going to he lectured now about the horrors of "video game addiction."
I mean honestly if that played a part it’s worth bringing up.
too soon man.Anything to distract from the mass availability of guns... to those who shouldn't have them. Meaning the public at large.
Name’s David Katz if that’s the shooter.
sorry, I thought the sarcasm was impliedNever too soon to want to save lives.
People get paid a lot of money to make "rewarding stimuli" a part of games.Addiction isn’t physical. It’s a mental disorder compelling someone to seek rewarding stimuli in spite of consequence. Physicality has nothing to do with it.
sorry, I thought the sarcasm was implied
The same name seems to be reported in a few places while not confirmed by police. The twitter account he ran has a few suicidal references and disdain for the Madden gaming community.I'll just simply say be careful posting links to assumed suspects until it's confirmed.
Local news still isn't reporting on the identity of the shooter.
Ignorant political posturing launched.Thoughts and prayers from worthless conservatives in 3...2....1....
Ignorant political posturing launched.
That's not what I responded to, that's not the topic, and handen't been mentioned before my post.You don't see a problem politicians taking bribes from the gun industry to make sure they do nothing?